On 06/06/2010 06:32 PM, Brad Kemper wrote:
>
> On Jun 6, 2010, at 5:20 PM, fantasai wrote:
>
>> On 06/06/2010 04:28 PM, HÃ¥kon Wium Lie wrote:
>>> Also sprach MURATA Makoto:
>>>
>>> > So,
>>> >
>>> > > :lrt horizontal writing is supported and @dir has been set to 'lrt'
>>> > > :rtl horizontal writing is supported and @dir has been set to 'rtl'
>>> > > :ttb vertial writing is supported and the initial value of
>>> > > 'writing-mode' is 'tb-rl'
>>> >
>>> > is different from what I wrote as "pseudo-selectors based on values specified in
>>> > documents or stylesheets ".
>>>
>>> Right.
>>>
>>> Does this mean you could live with the definition, as quoted above?
>>
>> The last one doesn't make any sense to me. The initial value of 'writing-mode'
>> is 'lr-tb' by definition.
>
> I took that to mean that the mechanism to change the default writing mode, which
> lies somewhere outside the document and style sheet (as we have most recently
> been talking about it), has changed the mode to 'tb-rl', as though that was the
> initial value.
Sorry, you'll have to explain what exactly you mean by that.
The initial value is what I get if I, as an author, set 'writing-mode' to the
keyword 'initial', or, if I , as an author, set 'writing-mode' to inherit on
the root element. Are you saying that this value should be changed by the UA?
~fantasai